TELEVISION
Wednesday, August 30 THE ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray and Arthur O'Connell in the film adaptation of William Inge's Broadway hit, Bus Stop (1956). Repeat.
MODEL OF THE YEAR PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The girls are certainly pretty, but it's what's on their backs that counts, as 14 top U.S. designers show the new fall resort, city and formal fashions. Joan Fontaine and Jack Linkletter are the hosts.
Thursday, August 31
CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Five Branded Women (1960), starring Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Carla Gravina in a World War II story of revenge in a small Yugoslavian town.
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Take a Deep, Deadly Breath" measures the mounting air pollution in U.S. cities and outlines steps to combat it. ABC's Peter Jennings discusses the crisis with Surgeon General William H. Stewart and rides a carbon monoxide-analyzing truck through New York City.
Saturday, September 2
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The 21st annual Little League World Series game from Williamsport, Pa. (narrated by Ted Williams), and stunt flying at the Naval Air Show from Los Alamitos, Calif.
Sunday, September 3
FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). NBC's London bureau chief, Elie Abel, interviews the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Arthur Michael Ramsey, on issues affecting the world and church today.
CARLING WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (CBS, 4:30-6 p.m.). The third round of the $200,000 Carling Championship tournament live from the Toronto Board of Tiade Golf Club. Final round from 4:306 p.m. Monday.
Monday, September 4
SPECIAL ON CBS, The Emperor's New Clothes (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Jim Filer's musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic performed by New York's Prince Street Players, Ltd. Will B. Able, Marcie Stringer and Fred Grades star.
Comes now an early start of the 1967-68 season, with a handful of premieres on ABC & CBS and something NBC calls "sneak previews"--pilots of shows that may be scheduled in the future.
Tuesday, September 5
LI'L ABNER (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Al Capp's "Dogpatch" moves to TV, with Sammy Jackson playing the title role, Judy Canova as the recalcitrant "Mammy" Yokum, Jerry Lester her peace-lovin' "Pappy," and Jeannine Riley as Daisy Mae. "sneak preview."
GARRISON'S GORILLAS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A tough, cynical band of American convicts is pressed into service as behind-enemy-lines guerrillas in World War II. Ron Harper stars as Lieut. Garrison, the officer assigned to ride herd on the hoods. In the premiere, "The Big Con," the gang sets out to capture enemy plates used to print bogus U.S. currency.
SHERIFF WHO?? (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A satiric comedy with a constantly changing cast of sheriffs, as one after another is shot or run out of a Texas town aptly named Blood. Dick Shawn, John Astin and Jerry Belson take their lumps in the pilot, "sneak preview."
GOOD MORNING WORLD (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). The travails of a disk jockey who finds it a lot easier to cope with his early-morning audience than with his partner, his wife or his sponsors. Ronnie Schell stars as the deejay, Billy De Wolfe is his station manager and Julie Parrish his wife. Premiere.
N.Y.P.D. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Jack Warden, Robert Hooks and Frank Converse play members of New York's finest. In the premiere episode, "Shakedown," the trio investigates a blackmailing ring preying on homosexuals.
"WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY" (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). "Viet Nam Perspective: 'General Thieu and Uncle Sam.'" Harry Reasoner and crew follow the eleven South Vietnamese presidential candidates on their campaign forays, then examine the results and significance of the election as it affects the U.S. commitment. Top candidates and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker are among those interviewed.
CINEMA
THE BIG CITY. Out of the disarmingly simple story of a Calcutta housewife forced to seek employment, Indian Director Satyajit Ray has fashioned a superlative, quiet epic.
UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE. Bel Kauf man's novel about a high school teacher in a Manhattan slum has been turned into an entertainment of high spirits, its sheen unscratched by the book's real point.
THE BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS. Director Pietro Germi (Divorce--Italian Style) conducts a boisterous travelogue through the bedrooms of a small Italian city and finds Virna Lisi in one of them.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. A Negro policeman from Philadelphia (Sidney Poitier) is falsely arrested for murder in a Mississippi backwater town by the local police chief (Rod Steiger), who eventually discovers that a good cop is a good cop, regardless of color.
THE WHISPERERS. Dame Edith Evans gives a soaring portrayal of a lonely old lady whose companions are the unheard voices that speak to her cobwebbed mind.
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. A slick, cynical film that nevertheless has the courage to show Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds as less than sympathetic.
BOOKS
Best Reading
DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer. The faces, facades and streetscapes of Dublin, hauntingly captured in poetic pictures and luminous prose.
STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. An engrossing biography of the mystical and aristocratic Wehrmacht colonel whose daring attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb brought him speedy execution by a Nazi firing squad.
AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. This spare juxtaposition of a crisis at sea and a crisis of conscience during World War II is so far the year's best adventure novel.
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. With impassive clarity, Freelance Journalist Massie details the tragedy of the last of the Romanovs, Czar Nicholas II and his wife, two innocents in a disintegrating toy world.
BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. A splendid evocation of the life and times of the foppish, young (25) artist whose decadent eccentricity and extraordinary style have won him belated recognition as one of the most fabulous of the Victorians.
RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to reveal the cancer of Negro despair.
INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. The 1942 Battle of Midway, refought through the recollections of survivors on both sides in a manner that conveys the dizzying tilt of every sinking ship.
END OF THE GAME, by Julio Cortazar. Fifteen eerie stories, among them the brief vignette that ballooned into the movie Blow-Up. All of them deal with today's fashionable fictional hang-ups: did it happen or didn't it? Is this a daydream or a nightmare?
THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A painstaking yet entertaining biography of the Victorian explorer and sexologist, Sir Richard Burton, a very flamboyant fellow and a hard chap to map.
NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART, by Andrew Field. This intelligent, if somewhat unyielding study of all Nabokov's literary production firmly consolidates his claim to succeed Joyce as the Old Artificer of English.
THE TIME OF FRIENDSHIP, by Paul Bowles. Tales of misanthropy, by a master etcher of the human spirit's dark side.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)
2. The Plot, Wallace (3)
3. The Chosen, Potok (4)
4. Washington, D.C., Vidal (5)
5. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)
6. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (9)
7. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6)
8. A Night of Watching, Arnold (8)
9. The King of the Castle, Holt (7) 10. When She Was Good, Roth
NONFICTION 1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (1)
2. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2) 3. Our Crowd, Birmingham (3) 4. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (5) 5. Everything But Money, Levenson (7) 6. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (4) 7. The Death of a President, Manchester (8) 8. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Steam (10) 9. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (6) 10. Games People Play, Berne (9)
*All times E.D.T.
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